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davis_square2012-11-07 09:56 am
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Somerville election results, and general post-election open thread
Unofficial Somerville election results, broken down by precinct and ward, are here. I don't think you'll find any great surprises. Citywide:
Total votes: 35062
Obama-Biden: 28467 (81.2%)
Romney-Ryan: 4865 (13.9%)
Stein-Honkala: 747 (2.1%)
Johnson-Gray: 543 (1.5%)
Write In: 108 (0.3%)
Blank: 332 (0.9%)
Local question 4, the Community Preservation Act property tax surcharge, won overwhelmingly, 24358-7714 (with 2990 blanks). I hope this will bring much-needed repairs and restoration to the West Branch Library and the Prospect Hill Tower.
I'd love to compare this year's local results to 2008, but I can't find them online anywhere. If you know where to find these, please link to them in the comments here. The pages linked from my 11/7/2008 post no longer work. ETA: Tom Champion e-mailed me an Excel spreadsheet from which I extracted these citywide results for 2008. I also converted that 2008 spreadsheet into a Google Doc which you can find here.
This post is an open thread for any discussion whatsoever about yesterday's election (Somerville-related or otherwise).
Total votes: 35062
Obama-Biden: 28467 (81.2%)
Romney-Ryan: 4865 (13.9%)
Stein-Honkala: 747 (2.1%)
Johnson-Gray: 543 (1.5%)
Write In: 108 (0.3%)
Blank: 332 (0.9%)
Local question 4, the Community Preservation Act property tax surcharge, won overwhelmingly, 24358-7714 (with 2990 blanks). I hope this will bring much-needed repairs and restoration to the West Branch Library and the Prospect Hill Tower.
I'd love to compare this year's local results to 2008, but I can't find them online anywhere. If you know where to find these, please link to them in the comments here. The pages linked from my 11/7/2008 post no longer work. ETA: Tom Champion e-mailed me an Excel spreadsheet from which I extracted these citywide results for 2008. I also converted that 2008 spreadsheet into a Google Doc which you can find here.
This post is an open thread for any discussion whatsoever about yesterday's election (Somerville-related or otherwise).
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No, not in the way I mean it--I mean something closer to daily contact with the prisoners, or even weekly, seeing them, knowing how they are doing and what's going on with them, perhaps a closer vantage point to see their circumstances, and how they could be rehabilitaed.
"Having had bad personal experiences with corrections officers (Petrone's only 'qualification' so far as I could tell) I wasn't about to vote for one."
May I ask about that exeperience? No pressure, but I am curious. I have only second-hand experience with corrections officers in Ma as the father of someone dear to me worked as one, and I know a bit about the friendships that transpired when the prisoners were released. I would not doubt that there were some bad ones, but I'm curious more specifically what happened if you feel comfortable sharing.